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On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, we sit down with Chris Tolles the CEO of Topix. Topix is an interesting hyper-local media company. The company uses a blend of algorithms and human editors to aggregate and classify news stories into different topics, with the majority of stories being classified into topics about different geographies. Interestingly, newspaper corporations have responded by supporting Topix both as investors and now some even as customers. On this episode, we discuss both how Topix works and Chris’ view of the hyper-local industry in general. We also spend a significant amount of time talking about Topix’s current and future business model, because I believe they may be a little further along then some of the hyper-local web startups.
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Today we’re pleased to announce a new biweekly feature on ReadWriteTalk - a live discussion with the ReadWriteWeb network authors we’re calling RWW Live. On this first episode, I’m joined by Alex Iskold and Richard MacManus from ReadWriteWeb. As well as, Steve O’Hear from Last 100 and Charles Knight from Alt Search Engines. We discuss a number of big events over the last week including:
- The Semantic Technology Conference
- The widely anticipated (yet not confirmed) 3G iPhone and SDK
- Microsoft’s Plan to Provide Cash Rebates on Searches
- Finally, we end with Yahoo! / Microsoft predictions
Hope you enjoy this inaugural episode of RWW Live!
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Note: We’re working with TalkShoe to produce RWW Live, so in the future you’ll actually be able to join and participate.
As a reminder, if you enjoy RWW Live and the other ReadWriteTalk interviews, you can subscribe in your favorite RSS reader or iTunes.
In May’s edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by special guest Barney Pell from Powerset. We talk about Powerset’s unveiling of their public beta earlier this week, hearing Barney’s thoughts on the process, press coverage, and the reactions of real users.
The Gang also discuss their reactions to the launch of Yahoo! SearchMonkey, and look ahead to the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose.
More information here.
A few month’s ago, we syndicated the Open Social Conference Call and it received a very positive reaction from you our audience. Therefore, we decided to bring you another special episode today as Google makes another announcement.
Tonight, at the next in Google’s series of Campfire One events, they are announcing “Friend Connect.” The recording is syndicated from their preview conference call today. Friend Connect allows sites to add social functionality to any website. As we anticipated over the weekend on ReadWriteWeb, Google joins Facebook and MySpace in annoucning this functionality over the last 3 business days.
For more information on Friend Connect, please check out the press release. Also, the Friend Connect project website will be live later tongiht - here.
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On this episode I sit down with Chris Saad the co-founder of Data Portability.org Since being founded about 6 months ago, one of Data Portability’s primary goals was to ‘develop a narrative‘ for data portability. The group that has proven to be extremely effective in generating a ton of publicity. The topic was actively discussed at SxSW and Web 2.0 expo over the last few months. It is also worth pointing out as Chris acknowledges, that Data Portability certainly stands on the shoulders of a lot of great technology developed over a much longer time such as OpenID and various Microformats.
Regardless, Data Portability is moving onto other goals and one of my favorite parts of the interview is after Chris comments on what they have accomplished in the last 6 months, I get him to completing the following statement: “if we don’t do ____ in the next 6 months, I’ll be disappointed.” Listen to see how he fills in the blank. All in all, I think it’s a good discussion and hope you enjoy it as well.
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As discussed last month, ReadWriteTalk will be syndicating the Semantic Web Gang. On this episode, the members discuss Bret Taylor’s idea of a Wikipedia for Data and look at the role that semantic technologies should play in connecting diverse pieces of data together within and between organisations. (Note: Bret is also the founder of FriendFeed and was interviewed with his co-founder on ReadWriteTalk.)
The regular members are joined by special guest Georgi Kobilarov from the Free University of Berlin.
For more information, please view the show notes.
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This week at ad:tech, Adroll is opening up to the public. Adroll is an advertising network that allows publishers to self-organize into groups that collectively can reach out advertisers. (If it sounds familiar, the service was reviewed on ReadWriteWeb during the private beta.) Today we sit down with Jared Kopf, the founder and CEO. We discuss his vision for Adroll, how the service has developed and views on the online advertising industry in general. Jared is a serial internet entrepreneur, before founding Adroll, he was a co-founder at Slide and previously worked at PayPal.
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This is an interesting episode of ReadWriteTalk. On Friday April 4th, I interviewed Tom Stocky a Product Manager with Google Development Products. After the interview, we sent the audio over to be transcribed. At the time, I had no idea that on Monday April 7th, Google Development Products would announce arguably their most ambitious project yet - the Google App Engine. At that point, we considered releasing the interview immediately. But decided that while it would have been interesting context before the announcement at that point we should go through our normal process waiting for the transcribing to be complete. We did cover the announcement thoroughly on ReadWriteWeb, for listeners I link to all our coverage on the show notes.
Anyway,we still think this its very interesting context and hope you agree. The first half of the interview covers a number of different projects, other than the AppEngine (because that was still in stealth mode). The second part gets into how Google evaluates the success of the different Development Products. It is interesting to apply the same metrics and goals Tom discusses to the App Engine and consider what other projects may be coming soon from Google.
One thing we’re considering moving forward is releasing the audio immediately after the interviews are adding the transcript later. Please let me know what you think about that idea!
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On this epside I am joined by Eric Gilmore the Senior Product Manager for Office Live at Microsoft. Eric discusses a product he’s responsible and we recently covered on RWW Office Live Workspace. Eric also discusses how they are soliciting customer feedback on the product, plans for allowing other services to build on top of the platform and observations on the so called ‘enterprise 2.0′ market and how it fits in at Microsoft.
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On this episode of ReadWriteTalk, I talk to Lance Tokuda the CEO of RockYou. The interview is basically broken into three parts:
- An overview of how RockYou focuses on building applications, especially focusing in on building apps on the Facebook platform versus the Open Social platform
- An overview of the RockYou company
- Finally, things Lance has learned moving from an enterprise software guy to focusing on building consumer facing applications
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